spright

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So now unto solace I'll turn my heart, with forgetting, from      thee And washing my hands of thy thought, blot despair for      thee out of my spright.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John

O thou, the love of whom doth fill my heart and overflow, Even      when wine, with water mixed, fills up the brimming bowl, O thou for whom desire torments my body and my spright!

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume I by Payne, John

Long-while I sought to what I might compare Those powrefull eies which lighten my dark spright; Yet find I nought on earth, to which I dare Resemble th'ymage of their goodly light.

From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Spenser, Edmund

Hereat the hardest stones were seen to bleed, And groans of buried ghosts the heavens did pierce: Where Homer's spright did tremble all for grief, And cursed the access of that celestial thief.

From Sir Walter Ralegh A Biography by Stebbing, W. (William)

Subject thy dome to her Empyring spright, From whence thy Muse, and all the world, takes light.

From Spenser by Church, R. W. (Richard William)